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Amid rising early voting numbers from women in battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—where they make up 55% of ballots cast—some conservative voices are panicking. Right-wing commentators are sounding the alarm, fearing that even MAGA-supporting husbands’ wives might be casting secret ballots for Kamala Harris.

Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, has put it starkly: “If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It’s that simple.” Jesse Watters of Fox News has even equated a wife secretly voting for Harris to “having an affair.”

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    My wife just read to me a tweet (or whatever) where a husband was making his wife vote by mail so he could guarantee she voted for Trump.

    I feel like he should be charged for voting twice. If she doesn’t get to pick who to vote for, she’s not voting, he is. Send him to jail for 15 years (or for whatever they sent that woman who cast the provisional ballot because she was told she could and then she wasn’t eligible to vote in the end).

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      Yeah, and we can’t give them that because trousers are a zero-sum game and if women wear trousers, then there won’t be enough trousers to go around!

      /s

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    “Voting for Harris is like having an affair”? That extrapolates into some pretty creepy implications about how they see their and their wife’s relationship with Trump.

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    Treat women like objects and strip their rights… fuck around and find out.

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    Jesse Watters of Fox News has even equated a wife secretly voting for Harris to “having an affair.”

    something that this article didn’t mention is that jesse walters’ current marriage started as an affair: he started dating his current wife while he was married to his previous wife. (source)

    yet another example of every accusation being a confession.

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      Missing little nugget on this. His current wife, ex mistress, was a producer in his show. Copy/pasted from Wikipedia: “Noelle filed for divorce in 2018 after Watters admitted to an affair with a producer on his show, Emma DiGiovine. Watters claimed to have begun dating DiGiovine by letting the air out of her vehicle’s tires so she would ask him for a ride.”

      Funking all caps CREEP.

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      he started dating his current wife while he was married to his previous wife

      Traditional Republican values today.

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    So those MAGA women actually have two jobs: Vote early for Harris, and keep their husbands occupied on voting day…

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    Oh, many of them are. They are right to be afraid. Everything makes these gamma males afraid, though. Climate change, the empowerment of women, people who disagree with them.

    They are gentler than snowflakes, they are cold breezes in a world that’s steadily warming. And they know it. They fear the future, no matter what happens. They fear change.

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    @MicroWave Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA: “If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It’s that simple.”

    🥳 YASS, king!!! 🥳 🥳 🥳

    …Wait, what? That’s not how he meant it?

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      No, most likely just spousal abuse. The right is well known for not having to need proof to believe something as fact. All they need is a passing thought that it could be possible, or worse the orange tells them “your wives are traitors that voted for Kam-ela”

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      Or, hear me out: Set the desired result first and then let them vote, but count what you planned and not the ballots!